Shoreline Systems
Lied about the position and what exactly it was that i would be doing

I recently started working for shoreline systems. I was desperate for a job and looked on craigslist where i found the ad in the customer service section. I called the attached number an they told me I could come in that day for an interview. I went in and interviewed with a very young man. Right away he seemed very eager to hire me. He told me the manager had to look over my resume but chances are i had the job. That night I got a call saying I had the job an i needed to start the next day. I was told i would be making $2280 a month on salary. So of course i was excited and i accepted the job offer. That next Wednesday I went in for our first day of training. I saw many young individuals like my self and we all made friends and started discussing the job. It turned out no one really understood exactly what it was that we would ne doing. We all were hired for the customer service position. So after waiting a half and hour longer then we should have traning class began. It was then we were all informed we would be taking the Kirby into customers home, assembiling the Kirby and demonstraiting how it worked. At this point I was pretty caught off guard it was not at all what i expected a customer service position to be. So I asked our trainer if we would be going door to door knocking and asking people if we could demo for them, because if that was the case i refused to do the job. My trainer assured me that every appointment we did was pre-scheduled and that everyone we were showing had an interest in the Kirby an had either been refered to us or had called u about seeing the Kirby and what it does. We were told we were scheduled 3 appointments a day, 15 appointments a week 60 a month. Another member of my team asked our trainer what if we don't get our scheduled appointments and he said we didn't have to worry about that as long as we showed up we would have our appointments. So great the next day we learned how to assemble and disassemble the Kirby. We were also told we didn't have to sell ANYTHING. That our job was strictly to demo the product. So that friday we signed all the paper work we learned then that we wouldnt be getting paid at all for the last three days of training that it was all considered voluntary. I over looked that but something told me this was fishy. Then we were told to take the Kirby home an demo it to our friends and family. He told us if we did 6 demos we would recieve 60 dollars 8 demos $80 and 10 demos $100. Also if we sold a Kirby we would make money off of that deal. Our trainer told us we would not have to sell any Kirbys just strictly demo the product. Then as soon as i was doing my first demo i called my trainer an he pressured my friend into purchasing the Kirby he did that to EVERY DEMO i did over the weekend. Then we were told that we would have to return to work that Monday for a meeting the meeting was only supposed to be two hours long. Alot of people were upset about that Sundays and Mondays were supposed to be our days off. I showed up for the meeting by 9:50 the meeting started at 10:00 we didn't get out of the "meeting" until 4:30 that afternoon turned out we had been signed up for extended training. That next tuesday was our first day on the field. The manditory meeting was ridiculus. A complete waste of time. People sang and danced and discussed the sales they made that prior week. Also during this meeting was when all the new employees were informed that August is concidered their "push" month. Every employee was supposed to work ALL 31 days in the month of August. Then we were all divided up into our teams for the day. I was assigned to a all girl team there was 8 of us. All 8 of us girls were new, except for a canvassar who said she had been doing this type of work for over 5 months. Also our team leader who had been there since April. The entire time we had been in training we were told to dress nice, and professional. That day NONE of the other employees were professionally dressed my team leader for the day was wearing jeans and a T-shirt. So we all get our supplys and wait to be assigned a van. We opened the front door to the mini van the back doors do not open unless they are opened from the inside so we open them and get inside. There is disgusting moldy hamburgers all over the van nasty dirty stinky clothes gross pillows. Just completely disgusting. The seat belts are tied up together so we had no way of buckling up. The windsheild was almost completely shattered only a small section you could see threw. As far as i am aware their isn't any insurance on the van and our team leader was driving with no licesenes. We are driving around until our team leader randomly picks a neighborhood. Then she tells us we had to get out and go knocking door to door to find our appointments. I told her we had been told that we had appointments scheduled for us. She said she didn't know what we were talking about that they never assign us appointments but that we needed to take it up with our manager. So ALL the girls are out of the van knocking door to door for appointments it was over two hours before any of us get an appointment. We had been out in the field since 11:30 and i sat in that van until 8:30 that night and still had not got even 1 appointment! I told the team leader i wanted to leave. My team leader said I could leave if I chose to but he would not take me back to my vehicle that if I wanted to leave i had to find my own ride. It is almost impossible to get your 3 appointments a day when your randomly knocking door to door asking people to give you an hour and a half of there time! My friend later told me they didn't get back to the office until 10:30 that night!

Alyssa
Thornton, Colorado
U.S.A.

Company: Shoreline Systems
Country: USA
State: Colorado
City: Westminister
Address: 7916 Federal Blvd

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